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On Oʻahu the first public notice of a project is often a line on a neighborhood board agenda. Before submitting a Special Management Area major permit application, the applicant must present the project to the neighborhood board of the district (Revised Ordinances of Honolulu § 25-5.3(b)). There are 33 boards. The wire reads them so you do not have to.
What it watches
- Oʻahu: DPP's open applications (35 files on the public-input map today), checked for additions, hearing dates and removals; the City Council's Committee on Zoning and Planning, each agenda read item by item; the Council's bills and resolutions; and the 33 neighborhood boards' agendas once the Neighborhood Commission Office's email lists are flowing.
- Maui County: the County Council and its committees, each agenda item as it posts; the Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi planning commissions and the planning director's permit reports, where the county's site allows them to be read.
- Hawaiʻi Island: the Leeward and Windward Planning Commissions' agendas and the Planning Department's monthly list of applications accepted, from the county's legal notices; the County Council's meetings.
- Kauaʻi: the Planning Commission's hearings, from the county's legal notices, and its agendas; the County Council's meetings ahead.
- Statewide: the Environmental Notice (new environmental assessments and impact statements with their comment deadlines, SMA minor permits approved, shoreline certification applications and decisions, federal coastal reviews) and the Land Use Commission, the Board of Land and Natural Resources, the Commission on Water Resource Management and four other state boards.
What each county's record holds, and what is missing, is on the coverage page.
What you get
- A watchlist by county and area, kind of record, tax map key, applicant or owner, and keyword. Every condition you set must match, and each alert says which one did.
- An email when something matches, with the government's document attached by link. No commentary.
- A searchable record of everything the wire has seen.
Plans
| Plan | Per month | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Watch Agents farming a neighborhood, small contractors, consultants who work one island | $49 | One county; Up to 10 watchlists; A daily email of matches; Full search of the record |
| Pro Land-use attorneys, planners, architects and engineers | $149 | All four counties and the state boards; Unlimited watchlists; Instant alerts, as the Ledger sees each item; CSV export |
| Team Developers, larger firms and government-affairs staff | $399 | Up to 5 seats; Shared watchlists; A weekly data file or a webhook |
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